With flu season surging, RSV sending many sick children to the hospital, and Covid-19 still very present, primary care physicians are feeling run down. NBC Medical Fellow Dr. Akshay Syal reports on how doctors are combatting their emotional and physical distress as fears grow over a “tripledemic.”
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Blame the government, blame yourself for have such a crazy poor healthcare system in the country.
They should let the U.S. Army combat medic take over so they can let the doc take a break.
The priests of the pandemic religion lost faith in their Lord of the Flu, right?
Close the Borders and Stop allowing Illegals we Know are Sick into this Country then sending them across America to Spread their Sickness. Border States are now hit Hard with recipient cities of Illegal Aliens are Catching up!
Imagine what would happen if you let people whom want to be doctors study for free or even let them pay it back gradually rather than suffer the burdens of cost upfront. It's almost as we need as many of these people as possible but we don't make it any easier for them to get there.
Yet in the worlds deadliest pandemic they had time for choreographed dances on tiktok and ellen lol
I want to feel for them, but my surgeon barely spends 5 minutes with me.
So for physicians, it isn't so much the patients complaining which leads to burnout; that is just the cherry on top. I would say it is mostly the sheer amount of work. After 4 years of college and 4 years of medical school, we have 3-7+ years of residency, during which we work 60-100+ hours a week (surgeons usually 70-120ish, at least in the first few years); and this is while making 50-90k per year, which is the equivalent of minimum wage or below minimum wage on a per hours basis. After that, we get our post-residency jobs, saddled with an average of $2-300,000 in debt. In primary care, generally hours are not as bad (35-45 hours per week of clinic), but the issue is the after hours work. Many go home and work for a few more hours every day, so in reality it might be 45-55 hours per week. This amount of work is unique to physicians, in particular residency; no other profession in healthcare requires 60-100+ hours of work at that salary for 3-7+ years.
In the U.S the dems thought it was a good idea to control folks and put them in a sterile bubble. Now this is what ya get. This has all been caused by the tv media and dem policies. Wake up !
we should help doctors and nurses they are all we have for our health care
Drs no longer make the crazy money they used to. Sure good money but there are LOTS of other ways to make that much. And it is getting worse. The big healthcare groups are contributing to this greatly. And our overly burdensome insurance, torte and regulatory system makes it nearly impossible to operate an independent practice. Not to mention monopolistic practices by the big healthcare organizations. Completely broken system. We are becoming the most expensive and least effective medical system on the planet. It is like we got all the bad parts of a socialized healthcare system and none of the good parts. Failure. Make an appointment. They can see you in a couple months about that growth. Maybe
Now they know how nurses feel 24/7 365
If primary care doctors feel burned out, how do they think their patients feel?
I'm burned out from not being able to afford to see a doctor for multiple illnesses that I can't even get a diagnosis for. Meanwhile, I struggle to have food and other basic necessities. I'm sure they're really struggling inside their luxury cars, parked in the 10 car garage behind their mansions. Excuse me, while I cry for their plight.
stop with the "poor" doctor routine….. they do NO direct care. they are paid very well Nurse practitioners make less and give better comprehensive care. grow up America
Absolutely normalizing going to therapy is important and necessary to help everyone cope with recent years.
Just work less hours.
Just work less hours.
This is what happens when you inject 5 billion people with an experimental DRUG. You are now dealing with the consequences.
Too many babies are getting RSV now. Babies should be at home and not exposed to all of these illnesses so early in life. The US is failing our children in so many ways. We need paid parental leave and more support for new parents. Love the fetus, hate the child seems to be the mentality here.
Keep up with the fraud.
The United States pays twice the amount per person than any other industrial country and yet is 39th in overall health…?!?